"Crabby Cat on a Blue Rug" Watercolor Greeting Card Painting Demonstration #SilverBeardArtChallenge

Hello art family! Have you always wanted to create your own watercolor greeting cards? Today we will create a watercolor greeting card - I will demonstrate for you how to create a cat portrait using Strathmore 140 lb Mixed Media greeting cards and Winsor & Newton Silver Calligraphy Ink for the #SilverBeardArtChallenge

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I will demonstrate how to layer your watercolors, how to lift color from an existing painting, and how to add inks to embellish your work. I will also show you how to secure your watercolor paper to a Masonite board for added stability.

The Silver Beard Art Challenge is a fun art challenge open to all artists, and all mediums I created and am hosting on my YouTube channel. All you have to do is create artwork featuring a man with a beard OR create artwork featuring the color silver. Be sure to use the hashtag #SilverBeardArtChallenge in the title of your video. I am creating a Silver Beard Art Challenge playlist of all participants. Be sure to watch all the videos in this fun art collaboration. We are all one art family!

I titled my painting "Crabby Cat on a Blue Rug" and am using Holbein tube watercolors and Winsor and Newton tube watercolors, Silver Black Velvet Round #8 watercolor brush, a Blick Masterstroke Golden Taklon liner brush, Strathmore Mixed Media 5"x7" cards with a vellum finish, and Winsor & Newton Silver Calligraphy Ink. This is my first time using the greeting cards and the ink. Let's have fun creating art together!

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I am a Christian and my artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use my paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.

Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.

I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the "feel" of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.

My work known as "Daubism" is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint."
"I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors"- Dena Tollefson



I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work. Find the list of galleries and licensed merchandise here www.denatollefson.com

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